Monday, October 30, 2017

Trump Backlash Sinks Steve Harvey Talk Show?

Harvey's first daytime talk show, called Steve Harvey, premiered on NBC in 2012, boasting a strong 2.2 in ratings and was a solid performer for at least half of its run.

When the revamped show Steve premiered earlier this fall, the show debuted at a 1.8 but quickly dropped to a 1.4 in the ratings.

For the first time, his once popular talk show was being beat by Wendy Williams in the ratings and he's neck and neck with Jerry Springer and Rachael Ray.

The source explained: 'Steve could have continued to survive with the first version of his show with these ratings because the show was produced out of Chicago and was less expensive to produce.

'But doing a daily talk show out of Los Angeles costs big dollars and with his current ratings, there's no way in hell WME-IMG can continue to bleed money like this into a sinking ship.'

Harvey faced tremendous backlash from his TV and radio fans when he paid a visit to Trump Tower in New York City to meet with Donald Trump in January.

...the ratings for Harvey's game show Family Feud took a dip and the audience for his variety show Little Big Shots dropped almost by half.

But it wasn't until the ratings for his revamped talk show started suffering did Harvey acknowledge his glaring Trump error.

As a result of his TV talk show moving to Los Angeles, Harvey also had to move his morning radio show there as well.

His syndicator, Premiere Networks originally balked at the idea of Harvey relocating his radio show from its hub in Atlanta, although Steve broadcast from his TV studio in Chicago.

'In radio, you syndicate east to west, not west to east. The idea that talent can be fresh and effective at 3am PT for the live audience at 6am ET is a big no-no in radio,' explained a source with knowledge of the matter.

But Premiere Networks conceded to do the deal with Harvey only if he closed down his company Steve Harvey Radio and allowed them to take ownership of his morning show.

'Now Steve no longer owns his show and all of the co-hosts and staff checks come directly from Premiere,' shared the source.

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Steve, Tina Campbell and Chrisette Michell, are all allowed to make whatever choices they want....but in a free market, so are the consumers of their products. The free market has spoken. P.S. I hate Coons.

@ 4:50 pm the flint comment probably hurt him worse. people are still suffering. it's not a joke. the contamination of flint water was an outright genocide attack against the black community there. why Steve thought that would make a good joke, just confirmed his coon status.

FUCK Steve never mind his meeting with Trump his lack of respect, pompous ass attitude, over bearing trophy wife, the disloyalty to his staff friends and most of all the way he did his wife and mother of his children Mary are all the reason people are turned off to the jigaboo! He need to work on his own life before he start writing books on how other motherfuckers need to do it. Take those soup cooling lips and have a nice ol piece of humbleberry pie.

His ex can crack a little smile right now. Not a Torrie Hart smile, but just a little smirk.Lady Heroine is already on her Shaunie Nostrils O'Neil. Stacking and hiding shit while ALL her kids have HIS last.

I'm seeing an earthquake in Hollywood 's future the way shit is going down.

Eh. Who’s to say it’s because of his Trump fiasco though🤷🏿‍♂️ Jay Z is slashing prices down below and he’s not a Trump supporter. Maybe it’s overkill with Steve. He’s on every damn thing. His presence over the past few years has become nearly as aggressive as his teeth😂 Poor Shirley Strawberry struggling to pay Cali rent according to tmz. Indeed they should have stayed in Atlanta.

The Trumpanzee, t rump curse strikes again. Any fool caught cosigning that busted ass rubber check, will have their coins fucked up and black card revoked. We are ever here for buck dancing coons for coins.

Damn... the WM is still on its game. Steve was persuaded to take his show to LA and meanwhile give up ownership of the one successful thing you own? Feel secure; you paid, right?Stumble... face plant --WM and its trickery...

I think that brown water stunt is what really did him in, followed by I don’t care about slavery to that white Woman. In these days of disrespecting black folks Steve picked the wrong side. Cooning is no longer popular or acceptable.